Insights September 17th, 2018

In Dark Futures Film Club – ESCAPE we see Stephen Fry provide the voice and personality of the simulation alongside Hugh Mitchell in a new dystopian short film about Artificial Intelligence and Simulation Theory.
in this an A.I. expert discovers he is living in a simulation and faces a stark choice. Escape is a short film exploring simulation theory, free will and why knowledge is freedom. Voiced by Stephen Fry and Hugh Mitchell.
This is an extension of the DARK FUTURES speaker series, Nikolas Badminton will carefully select a number of short videos by the world’s edgiest producers and share them via this site.
 

Stephen Fry makes a perfect voice for the artificial intelligence (which also offers to speak as Snoop Dogg, Homer Simpson, or Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski). 50 years ago, that film gave still-vivid cinematic shape to a suite of our worries about the future as well as our hopes for it, including commercial space travel  and portable computers. Today, Fry’s A.I. promises his programmer immortality — if only he would do the brave, forward-looking thing and and remove the safety restrictions placed upon him sooner rather than later.


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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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